It kind of blows my mind that North Korea is responsible for Spider-Man joining the MCU.
Care to explain? I don't know much about Spiderman and Marvel.
Sorry! See chrisdsalvidar's response above, they outlined it pretty well.
North Korean Spy to Be Charged in Sony Pictures Hacking
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Sony was hacked over The Interview a bunch of emails were leaked including some between Sony and Marvel. Apparently Spiderman was supposed to be in Captain America: Civil War but the deal fell through. When the emails leaked about it fans went nuts a pushed Sony to include Spiderman in the MCU which ended up happening. Sony still has the rights to Spiderman he's just part of the MCU now. I'd recommend reading th…
For some further background, many of the most popular Marvel characters' rights were sold off years before the MCU & Disney acquisition, such as Spiderman. Disney has tried to get back as many as they could, and are continuing to do so. Off the top of my head, Universal currently owns theme park rights to Spiderman, Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four on east-coast USA. In regards to film rights, Fox owns X-Men and F…
Universal also owns Hulk and his rogue's gallery with a few exceptions.
Re: North Korean Spy to Be Charged in Sony Pictures Hacking
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Sony was hacked over The Interview a bunch of emails were leaked including some between Sony and Marvel. Apparently Spiderman was supposed to be in Captain America: Civil War but the deal fell through. When the emails leaked about it fans went nuts a pushed Sony to include Spiderman in the MCU which ended up happening. Sony still has the rights to Spiderman he's just part of the MCU now. I'd recommend reading th…
For some further background, many of the most popular Marvel characters' rights were sold off years before the MCU & Disney acquisition, such as Spiderman. Disney has tried to get back as many as they could, and are continuing to do so. Off the top of my head, Universal currently owns theme park rights to Spiderman, Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four on east-coast USA. In regards to film rights, Fox owns X-Men and F…
see https://imgur.com/a/0lE9s#p6kuIut for a diagrammatic representation of this tangled web of IP
Re: North Korean Spy to Be Charged in Sony Pictures Hacking
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve heard this a few times but I’m not super familiar with the ins and outs of the MCU and who owns (owned) what. Can you connect the dots for me?
When Sony was hacked over The Interview a bunch of emails were leaked including some between Sony and Marvel. Apparently Spiderman was supposed to be in Captain America: Civil War but the deal fell through. When the emails leaked about it fans went nuts a pushed Sony to include Spiderman in the MCU which ended up happening. Sony still has the rights to Spiderman he's just part of the MCU now. I'd recommend reading th…
Thanks for posting your favourite email leak - it made my day. I would imagine it'd be hard for a group of middle-aged adults trying to modernize Spiderman by observing their children's day-to-day activities. Conversely, I really liked how Marvel included vlogging as a narrative form, which added a good amount of humour and relatability for modern youth.
Re: North Korean Spy to Be Charged in Sony Pictures Hacking
#25I wish someone could explain the logic of indicting foreign nationals when there's no hope of bringing them to trial. A 179-page criminal complaint must have cost a substantial sum. Justice Department could have spent that money explaining "correct horse battery staple" ( https://xkcd.com/936/ ) to its own people, and so made us all a bit safer.
I suppose it's a way of substantiating the attribution of the crime to North Korea. When it was just someone making the allegation, they could've been doing it for any number of reasons, but now it seems the evidence has held up to some kind of scrutiny under due process.
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#27What I really want to know is how did they learn the skills to do this? And more importantly, if they had that kind of access to outside information, how do they not know about the atrocities they are involved in? Or is it a catch 22 where if they don’t help then they become a victim?
Remarkably low level citizens (basically grad students) have access to public (monitored) internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orcmmra9oLQ My guess is that, like the incubator baby thing in Iraq, the more heinous crimes are just made up. It's easy to make up stories when there's no way to refute them. The defector stories are already internally inconsistent. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-n…
We have large amounts of testimony and evidence for DPRK concentration camps, dating back decades. It's not like we are relying on a single person's testimony. For instance, we have satellite imagery of the prison camps.
Also, the guardian article that you linked to literally states that just because there are inconsistencies doesn't mean that there aren't serious human rights abuses, including the existence of prison camps.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remarkably low level citizens (basically grad students) have access to public (monitored) internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orcmmra9oLQ My guess is that, like the incubator baby thing in Iraq, the more heinous crimes are just made up. It's easy to make up stories when there's no way to refute them. The defector stories are already internally inconsistent. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-n…
We have large amounts of testimony and evidence for DPRK concentration camps, dating back decades. It's not like we are relying on a single person's testimony. For instance, we have satellite imagery of the prison camps. Also, the guardian article that you linked to literally states that just because there are inconsistencies doesn't mean that there aren't serious human rights abuses, including the existence of priso…
> We have large amounts of testimony and evidence for DPRK concentration camps, dating back decades. It's not like we are relying on a single person's testimony.
For camp 14, the supposed concentration camp, we have two eyewitnesses. Shin Dong-hyuk, and Kim Yong. Both of their stories are hugely inconsistent, and they get paid based on how crazy their stories are.
> For instance, we have satellite imagery of the prison camps.
We have satellite imagery that they have prisons. We don't have any imagery of abuses.
> Also, the guardian article that you linked to literally states that just because there are inconsistencies doesn't mean that there aren't serious human rights abuses, including the existence of prison camps.
Yeah, it's a Guardian article. You can't rock the boat too much.
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#29I work in the entertainment industry for a major Sony competitor. This hack was when entertainment execs started listening to their infosec people. It wasn't just IT. Media apps also got more secure and data retention policies got much, much more disciplined. The paranoia was real. I'd dare say it's why the big social media data retention scandal came out of the election instead of Hollywood. I've always been suspici…
There's some fairly extensive information publicly available in support of the NK connection. I'll point to https://www.operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016... (disclaimer: I worked with the team that wrote that report, though not on Operation Blockbuster itself). That information shows that the group behind the Sony Hack were a previously unknown APT group. Analysis of malware used, C&C servers, and even…
I've never understood the knee-jerk skepticism to the IC consensus despite no countervailing evidence to these foreign hacks. I'm really concerned we're going to be caught flat-footed to significantly more severe attacks from foreign powers if 40-50% of the population denies that they happened.
Re: North Korean Spy to Be Charged in Sony Pictures Hacking
#30I wish someone could explain the logic of indicting foreign nationals when there's no hope of bringing them to trial. A 179-page criminal complaint must have cost a substantial sum. Justice Department could have spent that money explaining "correct horse battery staple" ( https://xkcd.com/936/ ) to its own people, and so made us all a bit safer.
It substantially limits their movement, as it increases the caution needed to enter any country with which the US has an extradition treaty.
As to explaining password security, the Justice Department is a law enforcement agency, not a security agency.